Some updates from the NYSPHSAA bowling championships …
Great job representing Section XI!
During the 24-25 season, Rocky Point’s Aidan Barry reached the 100-career-win mark. Congrats on the milestone!
Do you have an individual or school milestone to share? Email SectionXIMilestones@gmail.com.
Congrats to this year’s Section XI girls basketball champions, and good luck in the Long Island and NYS championships!
Section XI is saddened about the passing of longtime official Ted Pollack. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
We thank him for his decades of service to our Section.
There will be services on Wednesday, March 12, from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m., and Thursday, March 13, from Noon to 1 p.m. This will occur at Fredrick J. Chapey & Sons Funeral Home in West Islip.
He will be laid to rest at Pinelawn Cemetary.
It’s been a great playoff run, and we’re happy for the schools that have won Suffolk County boys’ basketball titles.
Let’s keep March Madness going and win some Long Island and New York State championships, too!
Your champions:
Congrats to our Section XI cheer teams for winning and placing in states. We had four champions!
Class A NYS Champions: Sachem East
Class B NYS Champions: Rocky Point
Class C NYS Champions: Shoreham Wading River
Coed NYS Champions: Ward Melville
Class D – 5th place: Port Jeff
March Madness for these Section XI Athletics For All. Thanks to Ward Melville for hosting another great event!
For Women’s History Month, we remember the pioneers in women’s sports in Suffolk County.
Women like Cathy Gallagher, Dr. Jean Berger at Ward Melville, Ruth Gracey at Port Jefferson, Jeannette Rogers at Babylon, and Annamae McKeever-Kress at Sayville put forth trailblazing efforts as coaches and athletic administrators.
Before Gallagher began her career at Section XI, she was a physical education teacher and coach at Smithtown and Cold Spring Harbor high schools and a PE teacher at Suffolk Community College from 1959 to 1968. She also enjoyed a career in sports officiating from 1967 to 1974.
She started as Associate Director at Section XI in 1973 and became Executive Director in 1982, a position she held until 2003. Among her many accomplishments at Section XI were playing a significant role in the reorganization, thereby eliminating separation for boys’ and girls’ programs and introducing new procedures and office policies.
In 1985, she successfully computerized the entire operation, which enabled her staff to schedule all contests in all sports at all levels. Statistics for all varsity contests became computerized, providing a daily update on league/division standings.
In 1986, she established procedures for monitoring and administering a misconduct policy to impose on offenders, a program still working efficiently today.
The Section XI website, launched in 1998, dramatically changed the organization. It provides up-to-the-minute information on every aspect of various sports to athletes, coaches, parents, and officials.
All of these women are inductees of the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame.
It’s National Athletic Training Month, and we appreciate all the dedicated athletic trainers across Section XI!
Thank you for your work and care for our student-athletes.
